March Madness bracket predictions from our college basketball expert, with 1 big surprise

Let’s get out of the way: We have passed a few real good years in a row in this space. Two years ago, we bored Uconn The selection of the national championship and ended 100 percent (41,822 out of 20 million arc) on ESPN. A year ago, we ran it with Uconn and ended again a percentage. In general, the last four choices of our national hero have reached at least the fourth final.
Basically, we are as long as we are late for the tremendous slope. This arc faded.
I went back and forth between Oborn, Duke and Florida to get my national titles in the past three months. I settled in Florida a few weeks ago, and now they have become more hero, which I hate. I initially chose Gators to put Uconn in the second round, but I thought about it after seconds, and here we are here.
If Uconn ends with removing it, this is your annual reminder of your bumps this time of the year.
south region
Many people claim that Oporn got a raw deal with this bow. Although I agree that getting either Cretton and Ryan like Carkrner or Luisville in Lexington in the second round is unfair, I am not convinced that the lower half of this arc is brave as some believe.
UC San Diego on Michigan is a modern choice that is upset for a good reason. Tritons is the 40 best teams in the country according to each scale, and Wolverines, despite its great victory in the Big Ten, has won in close matches at a historic rate throughout the season. Get ready to talk about Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones.
TEXAS A & M Surprises of the wonderful March annual performance of the Ivy League, then takes care of UCSD to hold a 16 sweet confrontation with Oporn, which improves Creightton in Saturday afternoon on Saturday afternoon that motivates Kalkbrenner against Johni Broame in The Post.
North Carolina is running in 2011 VCU in this region (almost almost 2011). The team that does not have a legitimate issue to be in this field becomes hot, and goes to nuts and fascia to the eighth elite. The heels have two great powers in the strength here: 1) The feverish ACC team, which no one believes in power. 2) The first four team, who were scattered on one who believes in power. Combine these forces and you have an eight -operation elite.
Marquette, which does not enter this tournament exactly, pulls “Marquette”, and comes out of the excessive seed in the state of Michigan before running to the red heels on the weekend. Carolina’s magic is largely running out that it collides with the presence of a ton against Oporn in the regional final.
West region
As we mentioned, I feel that Uconn still has some magic in March, which means that they may lose in front of Oklahoma. I assume they do not do and pay Florida, ranked from top to the brink of the abyss before falling.
The state of Kolurado is preferred over Memphis, and the seeds of two numbers where it cannot be stopped in this tournament. They compete for the tigers and then go down “Crab Five” in the state of Maryland (who was paid by Grand Canyon) to make the first 16 sweet since 1969.
Drake is withdrawn annoyed by Missouri, and the national love of McCallum’s national love intensifies, but then stops at shock to Texas for technology. Kansas finally He plays on his capabilities for the first time in two years, and after a documentary invitation against Arkansas, St. John and Rick Betino rolled to move to Sweet 16.
Florida and Texas Tech takes care of care in the regional semi -finals to establish what I think will conclude the best game in Elite Eight. GATORS accompanied them and their tickets to San Antonio.
east region
There will be at least one region of super -chalk this year, and the east is a bet.
Baylor on the state of Mississippi and Vandy, St. Mary are “the first turmoil”, and both of these two teams are the same and this. Byu pulled the only discomfort from the second round, removing the Wisconsin team, which played higher than its level throughout the season.
The result of this chalk is an enormous weekend with Duke and Arizona playing a match match for the title in 2001, playing byu and alabama game that can flirt with 200 points. The favorite prevails again, and Duke Pama faces March 1 against March 2 of the tournament.
Duke makes a huge statement here and participates in Alabama in the most anticipated game in The Elite Eight. The performance promotes blue demons, as everyone is heading to the fourth match.
Middle West region
The past fifteen years have shown us that there is always at least one region that is a little amazing and produces another four -year team in seventh or worse. In recent years, I was good at predicting the area, but I didn’t get the team correctly (James Madison took last year and Oral Roberts in the previous year). As I came to make the West in that region this year, I will go with the Middle West.
The Madness begins in the first round with the direction of the High Point from Purdue and TRY pulling the amazing championship by sending Kentuccy Home Backing again after one match.
Houston escapes the selection that disturbs everyone He thinks It will happen through the sponsorship of Gonzaga and the suspension of Bulldogs One, he won the first program in the history of the NCAA championship that makes 10 Sweet 16s, respectively.
The real stunning happens at the bottom of the bow, gently thinking at the University of California, Los Angeles to the long history of Tennessee from misery in March with amazing in the second round. Bruins then takes advantage of chaos above them to take out Illinois in The Sweet 16 and set up a regional final date with the very favorite Houston.
Elite Eight is one of those regional finals that you cannot really explain (think about Duke-NC last year). I think Houston is very good. I don’t think the University of California in Los Angeles is good. How do I think that the University of California in Los Angeles is superior to Houston and sends Mick Chronin to his second match? I have no ground idea.
He walks.
The fourth final
Duke Ucla returns to the ground with its fourth final victory in the first semi -finals. The second game is classic, as the main weakness of Oberne – its tendency to run a little at the main moments – finally bite it. Tigers dissolve in the closing moments of the organization and open the door to Florida to advance to its first national title game since 2007.
Gators joins Elite Three-Timers Club basketball in the college after it is at the forefront of a classic. Walter Clayton JR. Once and forever that guards are important in March, because the performance of his monster is too much for Cooper Flagg and Co.